Self Help Radio 012517: Dust

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What do asbestosis, silicosis, coal pneumoconiosis, beryllium disease, hard metal disease, siderosis, stannosis, & baritosis have in common?  They're all diseases caused by dust!  So are these: farmer's lung, bird fancier's lung (!), bagassosis, mushroom worker's lung, humidifier fever, sewage sludge disease, cheese washers' lung (!!), & animal handlers' lung.  What's the difference between the two sets of diseases?  The first set is caused by inorganic dust, the second by organic dust.  (You can read more here.)

If you're anything thing like me, you're perversely glad to be living in a world that has not only bird fanciers, but bird fanciers' lung!  It serves them right.  & what can we say about cheese washers' lung?  Might it not be better for the cheese to be just a little dirty?

There was so much fun information about dust that I am very sad that I didn't have more time to talk about the subject on the show.  But I did talk to a lover of dust & a lover of dusting; a doctor who studies the fear of dust; & my spiritual mentor, who has probably read dusty tomes & maybe even shares that knowledge with us!

& so many songs about dust.  A cloud of dust songs!

The show is at the same old website, covered in dust from neglect & disuse, Self Help Radio dot net.  The dust-covered songs I played are below.  Maybe wear one of those masks people wear when there's lots of pollution when you listen?  After all, you'd hate to get humidifier fever!  Or would you?!?!

(part one)

"Dust" Bombay Dub Orchestra _Bombay Dub Orchestra_
"Fairy Dust" Mick Harvey _Four (Acts of Love)_
"The Dust Blows Forward 'N The Dust Blows Back" Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band _Trout Mask Replica_

"Dust" 13th Floor Elevators _Easter Everywhere_
"Dusted" Belly _Star_
"Doom Bot Dust" The Firesign Theatre _Boom Dot Bust_
"Dust & Lungs & Wings" The Honest Johns _Meteor_
"Tulare Dust" Merle Haggard _Down Every Road: 1962-1994_

"Star Dust" Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra _1931-1932_
"Lady Stardust" David Bowie _The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars_
"Ziggy Stardust" Bauhaus _Swing The Heartache: The BBC Sessions_
"Dust" Erase Errata _Nightlife_
"Stardust" Irene _Apple Bay_

"Dust" Julian Cope _Interpreter_

(part two)

"Dust 2..." Elvis Costello _When I Was Cruel_
"I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" Robert Johnson _The Complete Recordings_
"Dust" Deptford Goth _Songs_

"Dust Up His Nose" Larry Rand _Dust Up His Nose_
"Dusty Old Dust" Woody Guthrie _Dust Bowl Ballads_
"Dust" Love Is All _Two Thousand & Ten Injuries_
"Dust Devil" Mission Of Burma _Unsound_

"Dust" Silver Apples _Silver Apples_
"Cities In Dust" Siouxsie & The Banshees _Tinderbox_
"In The Gold Dust Rush" Cocteau Twins _Head Over Heels_
"A Brush Through The Dust" Silk Flowers _Ltd. Form_

"Dust Remains" 14 Iced Bears _Let The Breeze Open Our Hearts_
"Just Dust" Quilt _Held In Splendor_